sketchfest Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Who's up for some Thursday climbing at the Butte?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b-rock Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 I'll be if the weathers nice. How about this afternoon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketchfest Posted April 26, 2004 Author Share Posted April 26, 2004 Can't do today, got an interview this afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Silver Bullet Thurs would be good for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtnHigh Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Jeff, when can you be there. I can get there by 5ish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 not to be an iconoclast, but why don't we climb out at broughtons? more options, better routes, fewer busted rubbers.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketchfest Posted April 26, 2004 Author Share Posted April 26, 2004 ...but it's sooo far to walk to compared to the butte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b-rock Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Yo Pete! I can do 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texplorer Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 I like Broughtons better too Ivan but noone ever wants to make the 15 min drive to a much better crag. After all it is light until 8:30 nowadays. I'll see if I can make it to the butt this thursday though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 anyone want to climb other times during the week?...i can be at broughton's round 330 most days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketchfest Posted April 29, 2004 Author Share Posted April 29, 2004 Bump! I should be there around 5 unless my afternoon meeting gets out early/late. I'll probably head down to Silverbullet....anyone??...Hello....is this thing on?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 I'll might make it, try to get there but it would be closer to 5:45-6 for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texplorer Posted April 29, 2004 Share Posted April 29, 2004 I'll show up around 4-4:30 ish and stick around for an hour or two. Look for the red cougar with a novel bumber sticker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketchfest Posted April 30, 2004 Author Share Posted April 30, 2004 So where was everybody yesterday?? Tex and I climbed all by our lonesomes over at Video Bluff and never saw another sole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b-rock Posted April 30, 2004 Share Posted April 30, 2004 sorry i missed y'all, got out of work a lot later than i expected, went for a trail run instead. next time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 4th wedding anniversary. i was, ummm, busy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 Opps, wife and family obligations. Sorry I missed it. Â As an aside, another person pitched off the top yesterday. (I understand they lived, and didn't go all the way). Â Thats 4 in the last month. Countdown until closure continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b-rock Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 Yikes!  Hiker rescued after fall off Rocky Butte embankment 06:03 PM PDT on Saturday, May 1, 2004   By ANTONIA GIEDWOYN, kgw.com Staff    A hiker was rescued after falling down an embankment at Rocky Butte in what was the third fall in the area in the last three weeks, officials said.     Rescuers transport the hiker on a stretcher. (KGW photo) A pair of hikers was walking near the top of one of the popular climbing areas along Portland’s Rocky Butte when they were startled by a dog. One of the hikers lost his footing and fell 20 to 30 feet down the embankment, landing near 60-foot cliff, said Dick Haney, fire inspector for Portland Fire & Rescue.   The owners of the dog were climbing on the rock face and were the first to reach the victim.   Portland Fire and Rescue's high angle/technical rescue team rigged safety ropes and lowered a firefighter down the embankment. The rescuer secured the hiker and both were lowered to the base of the cliff.   Crews carried the hiker to an ambulance and transported him to Legacy Emanuel Hospital.   His condition wasn’t released.   The incident happened on the northeast side of Rocky Butte, approximately half a mile south of the NE 92nd and Skidmore trailhead, Haney said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketchfest Posted May 3, 2004 Author Share Posted May 3, 2004 I was just talking to b-rock about this yesterday. I find it extremely humorous that the news always reports an incident out there as a "hiker/climber" fell from the top...blah, blah, blah. Why don't they dig into the truth a bit and say that a crackheaded, meth freak was seriously spinning, strung out on a bad batch of ajax and decided that they could walk on thin air.....Christ almighty, why do they always put the focus on us climbers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 i dunno, but i think i've met a few pdx crankheads/climbers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billcoe Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 A pair of hikers was walking near the top of one of the popular climbing areas along Portland’s Rocky Butte when they were startled by a dog.    Film crew filming "devil dogs, the hounds from hell part 2" ???   Also, if anyone notices the absence of trash, it was the SOLV cleanup April 24th. Sooooo, I recently got invite to Yosemite for a bit, I'm gonna miss the next cleanup. Sorry, but I'll be thinking of you all. Anyway, as all the 5 cent beer cans are now all gone.....well whats the point?  cya when I git back with that California tan thing happening etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sketchfest Posted May 4, 2004 Author Share Posted May 4, 2004 Have a great trip Bill, see ya when you get back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texplorer Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 There are some "newly trashed" computers to the right of the silver bullet wall. That place is a constant stream of juvenile carnage. I don't think it'll ever be clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b-rock Posted June 2, 2004 Share Posted June 2, 2004 Anyone up for the Butte or Broughtons tonight? PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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